Miss Martindale

Marianne Martindale (also known as Catherine Tyrell, Mari de Colwyn, Mary Scarlett and Mary Guillermin ) is an English writer and columnist. As Miss Martindale, she was a prominent public face of Aristasia, an all-female subculture inspired by the Traditionalist School and early twentieth-century culture.

Biography From 1982 to 1992 Martindale was one of the leaders of the Silver Sisterhood, a Goddess-worshiping new religious movement described as a cult, and Jack the Ripper,

Martindale co-founded the Wildfire Club publishing house and edited a collection of stories titled Disciplined Ladies. Due to the use of caning among the Silver Sisterhood and its prominence in the group's later years, the group was described as fetishistic in nature.

Martindale always maintained that, as an Aristasian, she was neutral on matters of "Tellurian" (Earth) politics. Martindale claimed to be a royalist and imperialist, but with loyalty only to the Aristasian monarchy and empire. Despite this, she regularly wrote letters to John Tyndall, a neo-Nazi activist and the founder of the British National Party.

Martindale was convicted of assault in 1993 for the caning of a young woman at St Bride's. She also stated that Guillermin's favourite film that he made was the 1965 film Rapture. She said that it was the only film he directed that wholly satisfied his vision as an artist.